Word: mythos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steinem's book also attempts to redress a sexist imbalance in the field of Marilyn mytho-biography. This is the first major book on the star written by a woman. "Nearly all of the journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe's death were written by men," Steinem writes. "So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe." Steinem devotes many pages to arguing with the male-written works, focusing particular attention and ire on Norman Mailer's famed bitch-goddess vision of Monroe that ignored her very human vulnerability...